Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
The medulla was discontinuous, granular, very bulbous, and very uneven.
It was not a constant, smooth straight line such as one might find over
here in this pubic hair on 672.
There was nothing unusual noted about the root area of these hairs.
Mr. EISENBERG. And again you are describing the characteristics of both
hairs, and they were identical in all these characteristics?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. Were there any characteristics in which they were not
identical?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; not on the limb hair, as I found it matched. I did
find limb hairs and pubic hairs and head hairs in this blanket which
were dissimilar to Oswald's and definitely did not come from him
but the hairs I have talked about here matched in all microscopical
characteristics.
Mr. EISENBERG. The other hairs, Mr. Stombaugh, could you make a
determination as to race?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes; they were all Caucasian.
Mr. EISENBERG. Could you make a determination as to sex or age?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; it is not possible to determine sex or age from an
examination of a hair.
Mr. EISENBERG. Could you make a determination as to the number of
individuals who had contributed these hairs?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; I couldn't. You would have to have a hair sample
from any suspected person, and hairs vary tremendously. Even on the
same individual head hairs from the same individual can vary from one
head area to another.
I have found as many as 12 to 15 different types of hair on the same
person's head.
So, therefore, it would not be possible to estimate the number of
different people whose hairs have appeared on this blanket.
Mr. EISENBERG. Now, Mr. Stombaugh, are you able to say that the limb
hairs and pubic hairs which you found in the blanket and which you have
matched with Oswald's in observable microscopic characteristics came
from Oswald to the exclusion of any other individual?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; I couldn't say that. I could say that these hairs
could have come from Oswald. I could not say they definitely came from
him to the exclusion of all other Caucasian persons in the world.
In order to say this, one would have to take hair samples from all of
these people and compare them and this, of course, is impossible.
Mr. EISENBERG. What degree of probability do you think there is that
these hairs came from Oswald? And without putting a precise number on
it, let's suppose you took head hairs from 100 Caucasian individuals,
how many matches would you expect to find among those hundred different
hairs on the basis of your experience?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. On the basis of my experience I would expect to find
only one match.
Mr. EISENBERG. That is to say that the 100 hairs would be different
from each other?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG. Is your experience, therefore, that the hairs of
different individuals do not match in observable microscopic
characteristics--within the basis of your experience?
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